Adjunct Professor of Percussion Cole Williams was recently interviewed for the Percussive Arts Society’s online publication Rhythm! Scene about life as a percussion professor.
Assistant Professor of Music Education Aaron T. Wacker presented two research projects entitled “The Push to 120: Reconciling Credit Hours in Undergraduate Music Education Programs” and “‘The students were excited to play’: The Role of Improvisation Warm-ups in 6th-Grade Band Class” at the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Music Research and Teacher Education Biennial Conference. He also presented a practitioner session entitled “Sharing the Baton: Student-Centered Tips and Techniques” at the PreK-12 session at NAfME’s conference.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, most orchestras canceled or greatly curtailed their seasons. One significant exception was the Bartlesville Symphony, which performed monthly concerts during the 2020-21 season. On Nov. 14, Professor of Music William Roger Price performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major with the Bartlesville Symphony in the Bartlesville Community Center. The center’s staff worked with the Bartlesville Symphony in order to create a safe environment for the indoor performance. Performers were masked (except for wind and brass players), including Price and maestro Green. Orchestra players were spaced widely and the stage shell was removed, which necessitated slight amplification of the orchestral instruments, not including the piano. The audience was masked and seated in pods of people who were safely separated from others. After the concerto, Price performed a solo encore and then joined the Symphony in a version of Beethoven’s Turkish March to finish the concert. All of the limited seating was sold out and the performances were met with standing ovations from an extremely enthusiastic audience.
Applied Associate Professor of Music Maureen O’Boyle and Applied Assistant Professor of Piano Stuart Deaver presented a recital of Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Major, K. 377, by Mozart; Spiegel im Spiegel, by Arvo Pärt; and Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, by Maurice Ravel. This program was recorded in Gussman Auditorium, Lorton Performance Center, on April 8. Enjoy it here:
